# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53238"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:22:12.160Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:40:54.830Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53238"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53238.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53238"
title: "phy: hisilicon: Fix an out of bounds check in hisi_inno_phy_probe()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nphy: hisilicon: Fix an out of bounds check in hisi_inno_phy_probe()\n\nThe size of array 'priv-\u003eports[]' is INNO_PHY_PORT_NUM.\n\nIn the for loop, 'i' is used as the index for array 'priv-\u003eports[]'\nwith a check (i \u003e INNO_PHY_PORT_NUM) which indicates that\nINNO_PHY_PORT_NUM is allowed value for 'i' in the same loop.\n\nThis \u003e comparison needs to be changed to \u003e=, otherwise it potentially leads\nto an out of bounds write on the next iteration through the loop"
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